Nintendo Wii is not region-free

The Nintendo Wii will not be region free 🙁 Representatives from Nintendo of America confirmed to 1UP this morning that the “Wii will be region encoded by territory.”

Last week Perrin Kaplan, the Vice President, Marketing & Corporate Affairs for Nintendo of America, was interviewed several times at the Wii launch announcement. During those interviews she repeatedly said the Wii would be region-free. So no wonder everyone was confused when the Nintendo UK boss said it wasn’t. You can see it 18 minutes into the video: